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l-r, t-b: chun jung myun, moon geun young, taecyeon, seo woo

We are all familiar with the story of Cinderella right? As children, we were told of how a young, pure-hearted girl finds her Prince Charming after she accidentally leaves her shoe in a haste to flee the ball.  But, have you ever wondered about the story of Cinderella’s Sister?

Korean romantic drama Cinderella’s Sister is a twist to the classic Cinderella story.  Korea’s little sister, Moon Geun Young is Zaren (Eun Joo), a cynical, angst-filled teenager who suddenly finds herself having a sister named Briana (Hyo Sun), played by Seo Woo, and a father after her mother decides to marry a rich *makgeolli manufacturer. 

Briana is the typical, pretty rich girl.  Always surrounded by people who always adored and dotted on her, including Zaren’s mom, she grew up carefree and a little reckless, which of course, made Zaren dislike her.  However, despite Zaren’s bitter outlook in life, Timothy (Ki Hoon), a man working for Briana’s father, decided to take an interest on her.  Briana has always admired Timothy but he only considers her as a little sister.   And thus, the drama unfolds.

Cinderella’s Sister will start airing tonight at ABS-CBN after Martha Cecilia’s Kristine Series and replacing Perfect Match.

*makgeolli – an alcoholic beverage native to Korea with milky color and made from fermented rice and wheat.

Looks like I’m gonna have my first crack drama for the year 2011 with the perfect-faced Kim Tae Hee and hottie Song Seung Hun starring in the romantic-comedy series My Princess.

My Princess has been in the drawing board since last year and finally, we now have an idea of what the drama is all about.  Kim Tae Hee is Lee Seol, a college student who has a crush on her professor and dreams of going to Egypt for a vacation, which is actually the reason for her preposterous moneymaking schemes.   Song Seung Hun, on the other hand, is Park Hae Yeong, a diplomat who belongs to a *chaebol family. In short, he is the perfect guy.  One day, a decree was ordered that the Royal Family will be reinstated in Korea and Lee Seol soon learns that her father was a Prince, making her a real-life Princess.

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All the regular readers of Hallyudorama must have known by now that I am a big TVXQ/DBSK/Tohoshinki fan, which therefore, is the main reason why I started watching the sageuk fusion drama, Sungkyunkwan Scandal.  Park Yoochun, who is now member of the trio JYJ, played the male lead role, scholar Lee Seon Joon who is probably the most good-looking nerd ever.  However, as the drama progressed, I was surprised at how good it was in terms of plot and character development.  I initially thought that it will be an F4 meets You’re Beautiful or Hana Kimi kind of drama because they said that it will be story of a girl who pretended to be a boy to be able enter a university during the time when women were not allowed to study.  However, this drama turned out to be much more complicated and exciting.  I fell for it, hook, line and sinker and I want other drama watchers to give this drama a chance.  It may not be the highest rater in its timeslot because it went against the other historical drama Dong Yi but definitely Sungkyunkwan Scandal is a gem of its own.  Here are the reasons why you should watch Sungkyunkwan Scandal.

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So before all the serious posts come in, I would like to ask all our Filipino readers to please vote Kim Jaejoong as the Hottest Male Idol and JYJ as the Best Male Group/Artist of the Year.

Also, please attend the 2nd Philippine Kpop Convention which is happening on Saturday, 11 December 2010 at the PICC, The Forum. Entrance fee is pegged at P150.00

See you there!

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I apologize for not posting a lot of articles during the past months.  Mytor and I were busy because of work and we can barely follow our fandom.  There were really a lot of good dramas that were shown like My Girlfriend is a Nine Tailed Fox (Gumiho) and Sungkyunkwan Scandal and we’ve been watching them too.  We hope that we could do a review about them as soon as we can.

I’ve also been to Korea again for a much-needed vacation and this time, I was able to go to Nami Island, the setting for the very popular drama Winter Sonata and Petite France, the location for Beethoven’s Virus. I was also able to watch the two showcases of the trio from TVXQ, JYJ  (Jaejoong,  Yoochun and Junsu) last October 12 and my fanaccount could be found at my friend’s blog, Koreyeah!

I’ll post some of my Korean adventures as soon as I organize my pictures.  It will include details on how to go to these shooting places as well.  Please wait for it!